1. Separate the people from the Sydney Road traffic by redeveloping the Coles site into a mixed use residential / retail piazza with underground carparking.

2. Institute extended clearways into the city during the morning peak and away from the city during the afternoon peak.

3. More regular street sweeping and litter control.

4. Victoria Mall is a nice start, but when you sit back and really look at it, it's pretty underwhelming - especially given the huge increase in numbers the plan predicts - we will need something much bigger and grander (see #1).

5. 15 minute parking only on Sydney Road.

1. Clean up the streets, remove rubbish and plant more trees.

2. Improve access to clean, safe public toilets in community areas. (Not those terrible automatic toilets like were recently installed near the library).

3. More child friendly spaces

4. Outdoor cafes and entertainment options. Community meeting points

5. Given the proposed dramatic increase in the number of people living in the Coburg are, I hope that Council are making plans to ensure that there will be adequate public services for all - maternal and child health, child care facilities, high quality primary and high schools, community health centres, mental health services and so on

Don't sacrifice Coburg's history in the redevelopment process.Preservation and restoration of the facades of old Sydney Road buildings. Encourage traders/owners to restore verandahs/awnings. Raise awareness in community of the rich history of Sydney Road.

Keep the library in the hub, the convenience of incorporating library visits with shopping could be the difference between people using or nor using the resource!Perhaps incorporate historical society with library somehow to give locals easier access to information.(Could be a dedicated display area)

Don't turn it into another yuppie suburb! Multiculturalism is the lifeblood of Coburg and makes it the great place that it is, maintain the diversity.

Improve crossing for pedestrians in the street at the back of the market. It's unsafe.

1. There are very few dog-friendly locations in Coburg. An off the leash dog park would be fantastic.

2. Upfield bike path needs improved links from Reynard Street to Coburg Station... currently the path runs along Railway Place then kind of disappears behind Dan Murphy's.

3. The car park behind Dan Murphy's is always empty of cars and filthy dirty. The bike path runs through it and people walk through from the station but it is badly lit and dangerous at night.

4. Most (all?) of the parks in Coburg are kept in a pretty dismal state. One central, well-equipped family friendly park would be fantastic.

5. The car parking at Coles opposite the library is unnecessary given the huge amounts of space at the other Coles, Safeway and behind the markets. That space coule be redeveloped into a public square leading off from the mall - with plenty of bike parking! This would help improve the position of the library as a community hub.

Improvements to the area should not have to wait for years.

1. Do something about the so-called Coburg Market. We longer time residents remember when it was a lively community hub with many small outlets that provided marvellous competition for high quality produce. Not the one-shop, not very good situation, we now have. Bring back a real Coburg Market. Oh for the Saturday mornings of old!

2. Before anything is done about the Initiative do something urgently about footpaths in the area. Sydney Road and Waterfield Street, for example, are very dangerous and are a absolute disgrace.

3. Street cleaning should be a priority - now!

1. I would like to know that all storm water from the new developments is collected and recycled to homes, parks and businesses for not drinking uses, possibly by holding it in large underground cisterns. This has been done successfully in low precipitation places since the Romans if not before. Needs to be planned and installed before above ground work begins.

2. Sydney Rd and elsewhere in Coburg have wonderful streetscapes that should be kept. Improve by putting power lines in all new developments underground, ban the revolting advertising that obliterates the harmony of our Victorian and early 20th C legacy, and paint the facades appropriately. Our urban environment can be as good as the European cities we pay thousands to visit and admire. No-one in Europe would be allowed to put such obtrusive and jangling advertising in their prized inner urban locations. They all have heritage standards.

3. Provide consulting rooms for sole practitioner allied and alternative health services. When I was looking for rooms I ended up in Queens Rd Clifton Hill to find affordable, sessional rooms. My clients then had to travel.

4. Provide affordable studio space and housing for artists and musicians. Encourage a creative community.

5. If infil housing is built on tram routes it should not be higher than 5 stories. Everyone should have access to light and sun, not just the top floor. Tram routes should have car traffic banned to ensure speedy trips. I spent 25 minutes on a Saturday afternoon tram making its way up Sydney RD in fairly normal traffic. Not good enough for people going to work or between jobs.

Thanks for the opportunity to contribute.

1.With increased population from Coburg Initiative plus Pentridge and Kodak developments there is even more need for provision of secondary education for the Coburg area.

2.We do not want another Ackland St -if rents are too high the chain stores will move in at the expense of small local traders selling real things that locals need.

3.Provision of outdoor space in central Coburg where families and people of all ages can meet/play is vital.

This would ideally be placed near the mall and library ,which I agree should reamain central.

4The future of Coburg's pools is linked to Coburg Initiative ,the current Aquatic Strategy is to demolish one and use developers money to develope the other.Both pools should be retained.Coburg Outdoor Pool functioned as the Village Square over summer .8000 visited in the heatwave .It must be heated but doesn't need over the top development.A cafe would be great and well patronised esp if could be accessed from outside as well because there is none in the area.

Make sure any developments & construction are of the highest environmental standards and cutting edge of good design. No cheap,ugly development please. Victoria Mall must be extended to include the library and an alternative provided for goods deliveries to the businesses within Vic Mall. With a huge growth of young families in coburg, some play equipment of sorts in Vic mall would be well utilized. Some space in Central Coburg must be retained for green open space/park, incorporating a community & arts garden. The future of the Coburg Olympic swimming pool must be secured and current site retained and improved - no big developments required, perhaps a cafe, solar heating and increased opening hours. More provision for Cyclists and public transport users with restrictions on car use would greatly improve the Central Coburg area and help reduce Moreland's overall green house gas emissions. A high school in Coburg is also desperatley needed and an issue that must be urgently addressed. Please retain Coburg's unique migrant, working class, alternative & artistic charm and ensure that all developments driven be need only and not profit.

1. We definitely need more child friendly places in the center of coburg. Perhaps an extension of the mall right out to waterdale st would make room for a small play area? Or a good playground outside the leisure center?

2. There needs to be proper footpaths ALL the way along waterdale st.

3. The coburg market now only has one fruit and veg retailer, this monopoly means higher prices, the center of the market should have to be leased by at least two different fruit and veg retailers. This would also attract people to the other smaller stalls in the market.

4. It would be great to have a nice pub that is family friendly (ie No TAB!), has good food, is warm and inviting and has a big garden.

Build a quality education hub for our kids. Our Primary schools are great, our Kindergartens are great, but where is the high school?

Strathmore High is full, Northcote is full, Brunswick is full and all of these are zoned so we cannot send our children there, and what will happen when thousands of new dwelling are built and families move in further exacerbating the problem why do our pollies let us down so badly.

This really is a major issue about the integrity of our community. From our local primary school last year the leaving year 6 children seperated to 19 different high schools, all of those friendship groups broken, all that community lost, why is Moreland ignored by the education bureaucracy, and why are our Labour politicians so lacklustre in pushing for this

If a school is not built as a part of the Coburg initative then we will have to do what so many other parents have had to face up to and move out of the area out of our community